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S vs Colt - What's the difference?

s | colt |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun colt is

a young male horse.

As a verb colt is

(obsolete|transitive) to horse; to get with young.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    colt

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A young male horse.
  • A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.
  • * 1594 , , I. ii. 38:
    • Ay, that's a colt indeed, for he doth nothing but / talk of his horse, and he makes it a great appropriation to / his own good parts that he can shoe him himself.
  • (nautical) A short piece of rope once used by petty officers as an instrument of punishment.

    • Derived terms

    * colt's tooth

    See also

    * stallion, mare, foal, filly, horseling

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To horse; to get with young.
  • * 1610 , , II. iv. 133:
    • Never talk on't: / She hath been colted by him.
  • (obsolete) To befool.
  • * 1594 , , II. ii. 36:
    • What a plague mean ye to colt me thus?
  • To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly.
  • * Spenser
    • They shook off their bridles and began to colt .
    (Webster 1913)

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